Tropescilloscope: Mundane Made Awesome

Ordinary, mediocre and everyday tasks made EPIC. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Bad Boss Not Even Bothering with the Accent Insane Troll Logic Alas, Poor Villain Death by Irony My Beloved Smother Posthumous Character Dirty Coward Humiliation Conga Early-Bird Cameo Broken Pedestal Danny Peary Cult Movies List Shipper on Deck "The Reason You Suck" Speech Anti-Villain Overly Long Gag Unusual Euphemism Soft Glass Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Heroic Sacrifice Improbable Aiming Skills Same Language Dub Suspiciously Specific Denial Catch-Phrase Room Full of Crazy Ungrateful Bastard For the Evulz Took a Level in Jerkass Ambiguously Gay Manic Pixie Dream Girl Fate Worse than Death Serious Business Stock Footage Jerkass Failed a Spot Check Funny Foreigner Playing Gertrude Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Parental Neglect Dark Reprise Bar Brawl I'm a Humanitarian Epic Fail Science Fiction Films Agony of the Feet Gratuitous English Let's Get Dangerous! Determinator Frame-Up Deliberately Monochrome In Medias Res Refuge in Audacity Slasher Smile La Résistance Mundane Made Awesome Super Strength The Cameo Adaptation Distillation Film Noir Index Action Girl Drugs Are Bad Department of Redundancy Department Roaring Rampage of Revenge Mythology Gag Creative Closing Credits Naked People Are Funny War Is Hell Politically Incorrect Villain Mighty Whitey Improbable Weapon User Tap on the Head Small Name, Big Ego Animal Motifs Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Insult Backfire Stalker with a Crush "Awesome McCool" Name Enemy Mine Hell Is That Noise Psychopathic Manchild Loophole Abuse Villain Protagonist Never Trust a Trailer Sequel Hook Camera Abuse Pay Evil unto Evil Poor Communication Kills Kill 'em All Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Hoist by His Own Petard Pretty Little Headshots The Bad Guy Wins Sadistic Choice Spanner in the Works Canadian Movies Babies Ever After Jerk Jock One-Man Army Calling the Old Man Out Laughing Mad Creator Cameo Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Historical-Domain Character Spiritual Successor Hope Spot Covers Always Lie Captain Ersatz Our Vampires Are Different Non-Indicative Name Famous Last Words Rasputinian Death The Un-Reveal Contrived Coincidence Imagine Spot I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Race Against the Clock Rape as Drama The Load The Mafia Genre Shift Even Evil Has Loved Ones Alliterative Name The Stoner Naïve Newcomer Implacable Man Unusually Uninteresting Sight Woman Scorned Red Herring Comically Missing the Point Film Series Villain Ball Badass Boast The Place Fanservice This Is Gonna Suck Rule of Funny Leave the Camera Running Pre-Mortem One-Liner Romantic False Lead Cluster F-Bomb Anachronism Stew Butt-Monkey The Dreaded Composite Character Properly Paranoid Final Girl Big Eater Man on Fire Adaptation Name Change How We Got Here Wrong Genre Savvy Scary Black Man The Lost Lenore Earn Your Happy Ending Wretched Hive Big Applesauce Broken Aesop Logo Joke Didn't Think This Through Manipulative Bastard Once More, with Clarity! Only Sane Man Hair-Trigger Temper Ominous Latin Chanting Epic Movie Red Eyes, Take Warning May–December Romance Darkest Hour BFG Bolivian Army Ending Mr. Exposition Rule of Cool Fanservice Extra All for Nothing Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Pimped-Out Dress 20 Minutes into the Future Sanity Slippage Fish out of Water Too Dumb to Live Mad Scientist Not Quite Dead Blatant Lies Reality Is Unrealistic Brutal Honesty Public Domain Feature Films Affably Evil The Hero Dies Abhorrent Admirer Artistic License – Physics Deconstruction Storming the Castle Big Fancy House Dies Wide Open Auto Erotica Dwindling Party Not Using the "Z" Word It's Personal It's All About Me Based on a True Story Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Double-Meaning Title Bald of Evil Black Comedy Rape Shown Their Work Immune to Bullets Made of Iron Bottomless Magazines Intergenerational Friendship Nice Hat No Name Given The Alleged Car Damsel in Distress Title Drop Unresolved Sexual Tension Black Best Friend True Companions Bury Your Gays Sci-Fi Horror The Lancer Names to Run Away from Really Fast Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Black Comedy Exact Words Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Horror Comedy Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Credits Gag Superhero Drill Sergeant Nasty Fantasy Films Amoral Attorney Costume Porn Adorkable Nothing Is Scarier Japanese Films Celebrity Paradox Noodle Incident Took a Level in Badass Instant Death Bullet Karmic Death Apocalypse How Easily Forgiven Intrepid Reporter Cain and Abel N-Word Privileges Hidden Depths Dark Is Not Evil Time Skip The Faceless A.I. Is a Crapshoot Spiteful Spit Big "NO!" Adaptational Badass Silent Movie Peek-a-Boo Corpse Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Becoming the Mask A God Am I Large Ham Bavarian Fire Drill Ass Shove Taking You with Me Kick the Son of a Bitch Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Bilingual Bonus Dual Wielding Better to Die than Be Killed Slashed Throat Index of Film Westerns The Ghost Taking the Bullet MacGuffin The Oner Downer Ending Dirty Cop Heel Realization Crapsack World Redshirt Army Dark Action Girl Loads and Loads of Characters Anti-Hero The Voiceless Sacrificial Lion Punny Name Gone Horribly Right I Have Your Wife Daylight Horror Adaptation Expansion Twist Ending It Will Never Catch On Riddle for the Ages Back from the Dead Red Oni, Blue Oni Stylistic Suck Italian Films Match Cut Retirony Armor-Piercing Question Male Frontal Nudity Crazy-Prepared A Date with Rosie Palms Zombie Stories Knife Nut Jerk with a Heart of Gold Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Author Appeal Kids Are Cruel Psychological Thriller Early Installment Weirdness Death Seeker What You Are in the Dark She's Got Legs Moment Killer Re-Cut Lock and Load Montage Central Theme Tranquil Fury My God, What Have I Done? An Axe to Grind Made of Explodium Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Gorn Obfuscating Stupidity Stealth Pun Serial Killer Random Events Plot Dissonant Serenity Foreshadowing Does This Remind You of Anything? Cowboy Cop Adapted Out Kill It with Fire Empathic Environment German Films Lighter and Softer Anachronic Order Never My Fault Freudian Excuse French Films Works Set in World War II All Just a Dream Yandere Toplessness from the Back Eiffel Tower Effect Offscreen Moment of Awesome Precision F-Strike Corpsing Actually Pretty Funny Informed Ability Antagonist Title Heterosexual Life-Partners Would Hurt a Child The Smart Guy No Antagonist Older Than They Look Mystery and Detective Films Love at First Sight Have a Gay Old Time Vacation Films Dramatic Irony Adults Are Useless Spared by the Adaptation Rich Bitch Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Spell My Name with an "S" Disguised in Drag Sequel Escalation Cool Old Guy Insistent Terminology Depraved Bisexual Kick the Dog Those Two Guys Last-Name Basis Light Is Not Good Freeze-Frame Bonus Beauty Is Never Tarnished Continuity Nod Evil Is Petty Dressing as the Enemy Fun with Acronyms Badass in a Nice Suit Police Brutality Fatal Flaw What the Hell, Hero? Air-Vent Passageway The End... Or Is It? Jerkass Has a Point Animated Credits Opening Maybe Ever After Reality Ensues Make It Look Like an Accident The Stinger Wicked Cultured As Himself Author Avatar The Musical Christmas Movies Index Not So Above It All Obstructive Bureaucrat Abusive Parents Evil Sounds Deep No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Reveal Country Matters An Aesop Catapult Nightmare Unwitting Instigator of Doom Evil Plan Award-Bait Song In the Back Accidental Misnaming Destination Defenestration Evil-Detecting Dog Breaking the Fourth Wall Dramatic Gun Cock Villain Opening Scene All Girls Want Bad Boys Parental Abandonment Dying Moment of Awesome Card-Carrying Villain Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Really Gets Around Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Papa Wolf Amusing Injuries Developing Doomed Characters Manchild And Starring Mooks Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Death by Sex Chiaroscuro Closed Circle Guile Hero Badass Bookworm Brother–Sister Incest Manly Tears All Men Are Perverts Smug Snake Cold-Blooded Torture Mama Bear The Smurfette Principle Chekhov's Skill Break the Cutie Parental Incest Slap-Slap-Kiss Cool Shades Fake Shemp Totally Radical B-Movie Five-Man Band Bloody Hilarious Race Lift Greater-Scope Villain Faking the Dead Casting Gag Facial Horror Bloodless Carnage Black Dude Dies First Red Right Hand Evil Brit Star-Crossed Lovers Shell-Shocked Veteran Meaningful Name Berserk Button Jitter Cam Pyrrhic Victory Cloudcuckoolander Offscreen Teleportation Death Glare Married to the Job Distracted by the Sexy The Quiet One Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Call-Forward Character Development Hero of Another Story Annoying Younger Sibling Genre Throwback Self-Deprecation Visual Pun Action Genre Drives Like Crazy Chewing the Scenery Training Montage folderlabel Never Found the Body The Mole Sinister Minister Flipping the Bird Slasher Movie No-Sell Jump Scare Mood Whiplash Crazy Jealous Guy He Knows Too Much Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Fantastic Racism Reasonable Authority Figure "Shaggy Dog" Story Death of a Child Camp Gay Narrator Real Life Australian Movies Aside Glance Historical Hero Upgrade Rousing Speech Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Age Lift Ship Tease The Chick Vampire Fiction The Cavalry Take a Third Option The '90s Straight Gay Vitriolic Best Buds Needs Wiki Magic Love Not What It Looks Like The Chessmaster Eyepatch of Power You Have Failed Me One Steve Limit Disney Death Everyone Has Standards No Celebrities Were Harmed The Dog Bites Back Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Only One Name Smoking Is Cool Well-Intentioned Extremist What Happened to the Mouse? Cruel and Unusual Death Madness Mantra Mind Screw Laser-Guided Karma Hollywood Darkness Badass Longcoat Plucky Comic Relief Groin Attack Despair Event Horizon Cool Old Lady Break the Haughty Decoy Protagonist Romantic Comedy Big Bad Duumvirate Captain Obvious Foil From Bad to Worse Scare Chord Irony Music Stories Disproportionate Retribution Neck Snap Bad "Bad Acting" Deal with the Devil Outrun the Fireball Rewatch Bonus Flashback Say My Name Retcon The Atoner Gilligan Cut Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Adaptational Attractiveness Plot Hole Disappeared Dad Accidental Murder Recycled IN SPACE! Advertised Extra Real Life Writes the Plot Evil Laugh Translation Convention Off-into-the-Distance Ending In Name Only Bittersweet Ending Redemption Equals Death '80s Hair Television Movie Index Deliberate Values Dissonance Hong Kong Films Eureka Moment Arch-Enemy Arranged Marriage Together in Death Hate Sink Villain Song Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Beware the Nice Ones "Well Done, Son!" Guy Body Horror Alpha Bitch Authority Equals Asskicking The Great Depression The Stoic Drowning My Sorrows Corrupt Corporate Executive Femme Fatale Reckless Gun Usage Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Leaning on the Fourth Wall Tempting Fate Evil Is Hammy Eagleland Determinator aka: The Determinator Men Are the Expendable Gender Line-of-Sight Name Leitmotif The Sociopath Those Wacky Nazis Cat Fight Call-Back Nice Guy You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Dropped a Bridge on Him Obviously Evil Word of God Almost Kiss Evil Counterpart Artistic License – History Boom, Headshot! Mexican Standoff Actor Allusion Deadpan Snarker Green-Eyed Monster Expository Hairstyle Change Did Not Get the Girl Expy Here We Go Again! And the Adventure Continues After the End Awesome, but Impractical Belligerent Sexual Tension Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Undying Loyalty Stepford Smiler The Casanova Ghost Fiction Ironic Echo Double Entendre Blackmail World of Ham Knight Templar Big Bad The '50s The Starscream Historical Villain Upgrade Fatal Family Photo Psycho for Hire Wham Line Shirtless Scene Diabolus ex Machina Does Not Like Shoes Fourth Date Marriage Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Cool Guns Cassandra Truth Hypocrite Fat Bastard Chekhov's Gun Not So Stoic Shout-Out Victoria's Secret Compartment Betty and Veronica All There in the Manual Friend to All Children Get Out! Artistic License – Geography Honor Before Reason Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Bring My Brown Pants Conspicuous CG The Vamp Novelization Fainting Death by Adaptation Wounded Gazelle Gambit Police are Useless Dramedy Brick Joke The Ditz Idiot Ball Genre Savvy An Arm and a Leg Dirty Old Man Dumb Blonde Meet Cute The Film of the Book Framing Device Rule of Three Our Zombies Are Different Creepy Child Combat Pragmatist Documentary Stealth Hi/Bye Vomit Discretion Shot Military and Warfare Films The Alcoholic As the Good Book Says... Dutch Angle Pragmatic Villainy Chase Scene For Want of a Nail Aluminum Christmas Trees Stuff Blowing Up Anyone Can Die Faux Affably Evil Animal Title Index Gory Discretion Shot The Bully Missing Mom Scenery Porn Darker and Edgier Villain with Good Publicity Hooker with a Heart of Gold Face Death with Dignity Those Two Bad Guys Mistaken for Gay Exactly What It Says on the Tin Fire-Forged Friends Put on a Bus timeperiod All There in the Script Canon Foreigner Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Adaptational Heroism Brainless Beauty Not So Different Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping You Killed My Father There Is No Kill Like Overkill Even Evil Has Standards Bullying a Dragon Very Loosely Based on a True Story Malevolent Masked Men Car Fu Lampshade Hanging I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Batman Gambit Left the Background Music On Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Shut Up, Hannibal! Badass Grandpa Suspiciously Similar Substitute Attempted Rape From Nobody to Nightmare Meaningful Background Event Ambiguous Disorder Love Triangle Due to the Dead Cool Car I Need a Freaking Drink Good Is Not Nice Token Minority Paper-Thin Disguise Bond Villain Stupidity Only Known by Their Nickname Meaningful Echo Sole Survivor Shower Scene Adaptational Villainy As You Know Revenge She Cleans Up Nicely The Power of Love Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Happily Married Demoted to Extra Deus ex Machina Pragmatic Adaptation Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Only in It for the Money Mercy Kill Foregone Conclusion Affectionate Parody Retired Badass Badass Normal Artistic License – Gun Safety Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The '60s Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Ripped from the Headlines Silence Is Golden Big Brother Instinct Every Car Is a Pinto The Brute Sealed Evil in a Can No Ending Fan Disservice Funny Background Event Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? NO INDOOR VOICE Artistic License – Military Chekhov's Gunman Monumental Damage No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Scenery Gorn Kubrick Stare Heel–Face Turn Rule of Symbolism Important Haircut Overprotective Dad Protagonist Title Evil vs. Evil Grievous Bottley Harm Beard of Evil A Minor Kidroduction Fingore Arc Words Driven to Suicide Male Gaze Red Shirt Sir Swears-a-Lot Sports Stories Unreliable Narrator Mugging the Monster Curb-Stomp Battle Running Gag Rated M for Manly Oh, Crap! Dark and Troubled Past The Remake Interrupted Suicide Your Cheating Heart Ascended Extra Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Take That! Action Survivor Thriller Suddenly SHOUTING! It Can Think Woman in White Big Damn Heroes Defiant to the End Bloodier and Gorier Establishing Character Moment Guns Akimbo One-Word Title Artistic License – Biology The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite The Hero Wham Shot Heroes Want Redheads Morality Pet Worthy Opponent I Did What I Had to Do Whole Plot Reference British Films Eye Scream Adult Fear Bi the Way Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Extreme Doormat The '80s Unspoken Plan Guarantee Book-Ends Coming-of-Age Story Product Placement Asshole Victim Ax-Crazy Off with His Head! Setting Update My Greatest Failure Bare Your Midriff Pet the Dog Domestic Abuse Biopic Dogged Nice Guy Daddy's Girl Bait-and-Switch The Dragon Reality Has No Subtitles Adaptation Dye-Job Action Prologue Improvised Weapon Ambiguous Ending A Father to His Men Neck Lift Bound and Gagged Horror Films Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Sassy Black Woman Humans Are Bastards Karma Houdini Parental Substitute Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Crucified Hero Shot Children Are Innocent Hero Antagonist No OSHA Compliance Gainax Ending Blood from the Mouth Black and Gray Morality Beta Couple Homage Mr. Fanservice Demonic Possession Killed Mid-Sentence Only a Flesh Wound Hypocritical Humor Artistic License – Law Trailers Always Spoil Major Injury Underreaction Martial Arts Movie O.O.C. Is Serious Business Big-Bad Ensemble Bunny-Ears Lawyer Cat Scare Skewed Priorities Punch-Clock Villain Pretty in Mink He Who Fights Monsters Motor Mouth Impaled with Extreme Prejudice More Dakka Defrosting Ice Queen Bond One-Liner The '70s Your Head A-Splode Handicapped Badass The Big Guy As Long as It Sounds Foreign Truth in Television Curse Cut Short Eldritch Abomination Grey and Gray Morality Extremely Short Timespan Film Noir The X of Y Show Within a Show The Ace Half the Man He Used to Be Would Hit a Girl Heroic BSoD Sexy Discretion Shot Getting Crap Past the Radar Bowdlerise Throwing Your Sword Always Works Villainous Breakdown Dull Surprise Fiery Redhead Vomit Indiscretion Shot Hollywood Law Four-Temperament Ensemble Be Careful What You Wish For Market-Based Title Gold Digger Soundtrack Dissonance And I Must Scream Up to Eleven Tagline Historical In-Joke Face–Heel Turn Gender Flip Anguished Declaration of Love Russian Films Bland-Name Product Video Credits Broken Bird Shoot the Shaggy Dog Blood Knight Ms. Fanservice Disney Villain Death Henpecked Husband